Progressive Era and American Imperialism Quiz

Who were journalists that investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social issues?

• Muckrakers

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Jim Crow Laws

Whose efforts contributed largely to New York passing its first laws aimed at improving urban tenements?

• Jacob Riis

• Janes Addams

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Plessy v Ferguson

Who established the Hull House to help immigrants with their basic needs?

• Janes Addams

• Ida Tarbell

• Jim Crow Laws

• Conservation Movement

Who criticized Standard Oil Company’s unfair business practices?

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Janes Addams

• Teddy Roosevelt

What laws were established in the South and resulted in inferior education, health care, and transportation systems for African Americans?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Conservation Movement

• American Imperialism

Under which doctrine did the court rule racial segregation was legal in public facilities?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Jim Crow Laws

• Conservation Movement

• Anti-Imperialist

What movement helped save millions of acres of wilderness land and created the national park system?

• Conservation Movement

• American Imperialism

• Spanish-American War

• Roosevelt Corollary

What was the belief that it was not in the best interest of the United States to acquire and exercise control over foreign territories?

• Anti-Imperialist

• American Imperialism

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Spanish-American War

Which war involved Spain refusing to grant independence to rebels fighting in Cuba and the sinking of the battleship Maine?

• Spanish-American War

• American Imperialism

• Conservation Movement

• Panama Canal

Which corollary stated that the United States would exercise international policing power in the Western Hemisphere?

• Roosevelt Corollary

• American Imperialism

• Anti-Imperialist

• Conservation Movement